<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Special issue on “cooperative design, visualization and engineering for multimodal systems and datasets” at Journal
 of Multimodal User Interfaces.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/12193" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/comput<wbr>er/hci/journal/12193</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">With the rapid advancement of storage media and network technologies, the data we need to deal with in organizational
 systems has become increasingly large and complex. How to address the distributive and multimodal nature of enterprise data and cooperative practice of system design to accommodate the demand for systems of data analytics remains an open problem, which has
 attracted rich attention from both from researchers and practitioners in these days.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This specie issue targets on novel design principles, analytics techniques and evaluation methodologies that are
 to address issues surrounding cooperative design, visualization and engineering for multimodal systems and datasets. The primary objective is to foster focused attention in this emerging area and to serve as forum for researchers and professionals all over
 the world to exchange and discuss the latest advances. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Papers to be submitted to this special issue must focus on multimodal interaction and multimodal interfaces (e.g.
 combination of several input and/or output modalities such as gesture, speech, vision, graphics, haptics, touch, etc.). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and papers will be selected based on their quality and relevance to the theme of this special
 issue. Topics considered for this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Innovative visual processing and analytics systems and techniques of multimodal data</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Case studies, user studies, and application systems of multimodal user interfaces and multimodal data sets
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Multiple user, multiple location collaborative design methodologies</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Demonstrating feasibility and applicability in cooperative design</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Visualization for multiple user, multiple location, concurrent visualization</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">System architecture, prototypes, and user interfaces for cooperative visualization</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Collaborative process planning, scheduling, control, conformance testing and interoperability checking, cooperative decision making</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Human-machine interfaces, frameworks, reference models, architectures, tools and systems</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:8.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Schedule:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Instructions for authors:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Submissions should be around 8-12 pages and must not have been previously published, with the exception that substantial
 extensions of conference and workshop papers (at least 30% new content) can be considered.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Authors are requested to follow instructions for manuscript submission to the Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces
 (<a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/12193" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/compu<wbr>ter/hci/journal/12193</a>) and to submit manuscripts at the following link:
<a href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/jmui/" target="_blank">http://www.editorialmanager.co<wbr>m/jmui/</a>. The article type to be selected is “SI-Coop”.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Guest editors:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tony Huang, Yuhua Luo and Henry Duh</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">contact: <a href="mailto:Tony.Huang@utas.edu.au" target="_blank">Tony.Huang@utas.edu.au</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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